When I checked my e-mail this morning I was pleasantly surprised when I saw a press release send to me by Plextor Europe. Plextor has announced their latest dual format DVD-recorder, the...

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Bah its going to be quite some time before 8X media hit the market. 4X +RW should be available in a month... its been 6 months since it was announced and 4 since a few manufacturers met the spec. Same thing is going to happen. External does look pretty slick though. Only 2 MB buffer.[edited by tazdevl on 10.07.2003 15:17]

Plextor always (except for laptop & slims) has used Sanyo chipsets and about 1/2 year ago Sanyo released x8 dual format chipset Defenite buy for me, it has almos everythinhg I need (DVD read speed could be a bit higher).

After reading the specs on this new baby @ www.plextor.be there is no other contender on the market this is the only dvd writer to have as part of your system. Forget Lite -on the promised x4 model never appeared and as for the x8 model is that another pipe-dream? Greetz from a Happy Scsi Plextor owner:S

Unfortunatly, here is information from the Japaneese site (badly translated) : PX-708A/JP Open price The middle of September ATAPI built-in type (BASIC model) PX-708A/JPB Open price The middle of October ATAPI built-in type (Æ’uÆ’'°Æ’bÆ’NÆ’xÆ’[Æ’'¹Æ’'šÆ’fÆ’'¹ [edited by Lord KiRon on 21.07.2003 23:58]

In my opinion I am really happy with my 4x,I mean with 8x you can make u backup in 10min,well with 4x u make it in 15,is that I really big different? if i wait 1 year,i will get the same driver,but a half price My 2 cents[edited by MATA7 on 16.08.2003 11:59]